No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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10+ arrested after a rifle ambush of security at Prairieland Detention Center near Alvarado, TX on 4th july.
Shortly before 2300, some of the arrested fired fireworks at center to draw out a response, when it arrived at least two of them started shooting at the responding officers from a distance of 100-150m. Soon after, a driver (trans, seems the only one) with a van that had 2 ARs was stopped by a responding cop (map & times)
The shooters fired about 30 shots at responding cops, hitting one in the neck, suffered a jam, probably faced return fire and then started running. Shortly after cops arrested 9 of them in a field 300 m away, armed and in body armor in addition the driver in the van. At least one got away. $25k reward.
Total equipment recovered so far on the spot: 4 AR rifles, pistols, 12 sets of body armor and several helmets.
NYT article: https://archive.is/CBvms Unusually big ambush, usually it's just one guy.
Here's a twitter thread with more details. Can't vouch for the veracity of it. It seems logical - we've been hearing for years how antifa can organise and has people. These people look too clean though, antifa protesters usually look much scruffier.
This looks very.. amateurish. Sure there was a plan but it seems they underestimated the difficulty of hitting anything at night. Or just chickened out.
No_one
15hr ago
Around here (Slovakia), I'm not sure if @georgioz will back me up on this, putting children into daycare before age 4 is seen as wrong and harming the child, as the child needs stability and security, not be taken care of by strangers.
Communists briefly promoted it but it later came to be seen as unwholesome and wrong. I have a relative who was put into daycare from age.. 1.5 I think, or maybe 2 years and it seems she (and rest of family) think it was not a good idea.
No_one
20hr ago
It's almost certain this 'stunt' was engineered by Nikita Bier and probably approved by Elon.
nikita bier, known for making apps go viral, joins x as head of product the next week, grok declares itself "mecha hitler" media from across the world reports on it
you've all been played. as usual
No_one
20hr ago
The OP is the kind of person who is surprised when "Boaty McBoatface" wins the online naming poll.
I'm still amused you take my succinct summary as evidence I'm surprised by any of it.
No_one
20hr ago
That makes sense. Yeah, I think so. I read a fair about Epstein even before his second arrest and untimely death. He seemed to be into 15-18 yr girls but was hiring adult girls too and there may have been some 14 year old. I don't recall coming across any suggestion of actual pedophilia.
If he's the kind of risk-taking ambitious guy and he's into teenagers, it'd make sense he'd be creeping on them.
by threatening to reveal their daughter was no longer a virgin
This still seems very odd because come on.. 1980s New York? That'd make sense in I don't know..some very traditional place, not NYC in 80s.
No_one
21hr ago
If they had to resort to dropping expensive glide bombs instead of waltzing in and bombing with impunity using just bombsights, that means the airspace was contested. It's the same thing that goes on in Ukraine- except there even lofting the glide bombs happens at low altitude.
In the end, Houthis shot down.. at least 20 reaper drones since start of 24.
Now you can't shoot a reaper drone (service ceiling 15400, about 50 000 feet) down with a man-portable missile, even the smallest, newest missiles with performance high enough weigh about 200 lbs. This isn't stuff you can easily hide, possibly these were launched from heavy trucks and not just SUVs.
What does it exactly say about US Navy's SEAD capabilities, especially when we hear talk about them possibly being involved in a fight against China, if a proxy of a decidedly second rate power denied them ability to control airspace for over a year.
No_one
1d ago
Germany isn't Texas, and there are insufficient peaker or baseload plants to cover expected and common dark & cold weeks..
No_one
1d ago
Mostly solid points, I should have left that out or written it better.
In any case things are going off the rails everywhere in the American sphere of influence.
Baltics have been recognized as indefensible for a long time, unless NATO in Europe reforms and starts rearming right now, they're going to be basically helpless once Americans withdraw forces to Pacific or get too broke to maintain their presence in Europe.
We know Americans had issues establishing air superiority over Yemen. Any war around Baltics would have Russians strike airfields and cover their own forces with AAA so air power wouldn't have much effect.
Russians have vast amount of drones, tactical missiles and counter drone systems. Unless NATO prepositioned its entire force in the Baltics, the tripwire forces there would get overrun in a week.
Are German or French soldiers even going to have enough ammo to attempt to retake the area?
but stories of the grid failing are exaggerated.
I implied there's going to be ever less stability going forward because of ever fewer big generators coupled to big steam turbines.
No one wants to invest in an industry that's supposed to disappear by 2040. Coal plants are closing, gas peaker plants are not getting built at the expected pace.
No_one
1d ago
Oh.Thx. I think I have seen references to it.
I wonder where all the furries were in 1980s-1990s.
No_one
1d ago
This wasn't about training data, it searches and reads the web.
It incorrectly interpreted what it read because prompt or the model itself doesn't know claims of combatants are usually spurious.
No_one
2d ago
I meant things such as not being aware that combatants in a war release constant lies and assuming their press releases are not almost straight bullshit.
No doubt this piece of information is somewhere in there but unless reminded to it's happily oblivious.
No_one
2d ago
OP wishes you to know that he knows LLMs will write whatever if allowed to do so and this whole thing was neonazis ( they started the Stancil trolling) figuring out that if you contaminate grok's context enough it's going to say silly crap.
No_one
2d ago
I haven't seen Gemini do it much.
Mostly what strikes me is stunning naivete in places, basically repeats whatever official sources say without reflection. But that's to be expected.
No_one
2d ago
I would agree that intentionality isn't easy for them and is outpaced by their verbal ability, but it's not easy for us either. It's not clear even if it's optimal to represent the world accurately. (We are all at war, after all )
E.g. basically every ideological person in my opinion believes untrue things about the world for instrumental reasons and is unaware of it.
in philosophy, the power of minds to be about something, to represent or to stand for things, properties and states of affairs
Being strategically wrong about the world, that is, to misrepresent the world in the mind is advantageous. Horrifying conclusion yet if you look at e.g. the discussion about tracking and educators..
No_one
2d ago
How would that work, I have a Win 10 home license, that'd not fly with LTSC?
No_one
2d ago
...nonsense generators? Have you ever used e.g. Gemini or Deepseek? Both are free. Okay both can be very naive at times, and both are kind of soy with default prompts. Deepseek, however, with a bit of prompting can be completely insane yet rational and easily smarter than most people you see if you go to any place outside of a professional context.
If you want to really see what they can do, install some client for LLMs and hook yourself up with some of the better free models over at https://openrouter.ai/models
(there's a 50 query daily limit if you have <10$ in your account, not sure if there's a better service. )
No_one
2d ago
Um, no. People are already working on stripped down 'reasoner' AIs with limited knowledge but great reasoning ability and ways of plugging in extra databases.
That's deemed to be the most promising area of research at least what my superficial following of Ilforte's twitter makes me think. The hope is, within say 10 years you'll be able to run a fairly smart mind on a big graphics card. Researchers believe even a 2-3 billion parameter model with the right architecture could be good at thinking. The models right now, especially the big ones were often giant bags of heuristics, at least before reasoner models entered the scene.
No_one
2d ago
Depending on how thorough he was, it's likely he had a list of all the people he had dirt on and which also specified what dirt he had on them. But at the very least if he was a little organized he had a list of people he taped having sex etc.
How did the whole thing work? I recall hearing about people whom he invited to his properties and who accepted it bc famous guy/free vacation/there'll be interesting people there and who didn't join in on the 'fun'.
Then I imagine there were people who would come specifically for the 'fun'. Maybe he had a list of people who liked his illicit entertainment and all the provided favors and sought him out? He'd probably have the most material on those guys.
Something like that could be the 'client list' I guess..
In a bit of unambiguously 21st century news, some tweaks to Grok, xAI's chatbot have had it do particularly interesting things today including
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when asked to, composing bite sized smut about other users (first victim was possibly Will Stancil)., then defending said decision.
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referring to itself as Mechahitler
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doing the "every single time" meme in its replies.
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saying Elon personally allowed it to point out Jewish overrepresentation in radical leftism
This may make minor news because Musk is in trouble, on the other hand all the people who really, really hate him have their pants on fire like Europeans, von der Leyen is getting impeached, they're actually scared of Russia / China so it might just blow over, the grid is getting worse and is going to keep getting worse due to Green energy mandates.
I'm even suspecting Musk deliberately told them to relax the guardrails for some reason. Probably .. publicity?
Update: site addresses the issues
We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts. Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X. xAI is training only truth-seeking and thanks to the millions of users on X, we are able to quickly identify and update the model where training could be improved.
EDIT2
apparently this prompt change may be the culprit
EDIT3
Stancil went on local TV news to complain about the ERP grok made. (video included)
EDIT4:
There's quite reasonable suspicion this 'malfunction' was engineered by Nikita Bier
No_one
2d ago
40,000 people and mostly young men, the feistiest demographic. They'd be dying from random young male crap (suicide, drinking, beefs)even if the leadership were perfect
Add to that not great leadership focused on the wrong things
No_one
2d ago
We know from the Israeli defector ben Menashe that Maxwell was working for Mossad ..that was corroborated when (iirc) Mossad guys carried his coffin and so on. Not a stretch that his favorite daughter was also involved.
And as to what Epstein did.. Whether there is a list or not is irrelevant, we know he was recording blackmail material. I strongly doubt he was e.g. into porn of Alan Dershowitz and people like that. And I can't believe intelligence services ,even if they didn't create him, would have allowed someone like that to operate an influence operation without wetting their beaks. No way, absolutely no way.
The problem with false flag theory of this size is that the ten people arrested would have to be genuine. You can't find ten people willing to do a decade in prison over a false-flag attack.
And the mix of amateurish and sound seems exactly like what you'd expect from an organisation that tries to plan but doesn't have much real world experience in doing so.
Of course, the whole thing could still be a 'false flag' of the type of some red-coded psychopath devising the whole thing and selling it to Song to accelerate matters, the way FBI informants created terrorism plots. But that seems unlikely as such competent people are rare.
Well, they didn't seem to have practiced or thought this out. A competent cell could have modified rifles for fully automatic, controllable fire. I'm sure if you do a bit of research you can find accurate blueprints on how to modify the receiver to allow full auto..
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